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What's in the pack

48 pixel art parallax backgrounds in one style: 12 scenes (meadow, pine forest, mountains, desert, ocean, jungle, city, castle, winter, haunted graveyard, volcano, sky islands), each at dawn, day, sunset and night. Every background is 6 to 7 layers that repeat left to right without a seam, ready to scroll behind a platformer, runner or shooter.

Licence in one line: use them in any personal or commercial game; do not resell the assets.

What you get

  • 48 backgrounds = 12 scenes x 4 times of day, 300 layer images.
  • 320x180 view at 1x (20 x 11 tiles of 16 px). Every layer is 640x180, two screens wide, so the near layers repeat less.
  • Scaled by whole numbers: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x (1280x720) and 6x (1920x1080), always sharp.
  • Animated layers: the ocean's sea with sun and moon glitter (8 frames), the volcano's lava river (8 frames), twinkling stars in every night sky (4 frames). Clouds and mist drift on their own.
  • Lit windows at night in the city, the castle village and the haunted manor.
  • Every background as one merged picture too (320x180 view at 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, plus the full 640 strip) for menus, title screens and visual novels.
  • Godot 4.3+ project: one Parallax2D scene per background (factors, repeat size and autoscroll set), and a demo that scrolls them (arrow keys change background and speed). Every scene was loaded in Godot 4.7.2 by the build.
  • viewer.html: open it in a browser and scroll through all 48 with their parallax.
  • backgrounds.json: every layer's file, parallax factor, autoscroll speed, frames, fps, opacity and order, for any engine.

Why these

  • One style across 12 places and 4 times of day: a level can go from dawn to night, or from the meadow to the mountains, without the art changing style.
  • Depth that reads: far layers fade into the horizon haze, near layers are darker, and the light comes from the sun or moon (rims on the lit side), so the layers always separate when they move.
  • Proven seamless: the build checks every layer's wrap seam, that no background has holes, and that no two files are the same.
  • The README lists every scene's layers with their factors, and how to set them up in Godot, Unity and GameMaker.

What it does not include

No tilesets, characters or foreground platforms (the platformer screenshot uses our Platformer Tileset, sold separately), no PSD or Aseprite files, no vertical (tall) backgrounds, no caves or interiors.

Licence

Use and modify them in personal and commercial games and apps, and ship them inside your game. Do not resell or redistribute the assets themselves. Credit is appreciated, not required. Not for AI training or NFTs.

At a glance

Shelf
Backgrounds
View
Side-view
Files
JSON
Engine files or notes
Godot, Unity, GameMaker
Full pack
18 MB
Free sample
2.1 MB
Licence
Use it in your games, commercial ones too; the files themselves can't be resold or shared

Use it in Godot, Unity or GameMaker

Godot

  1. Copy the pack's folder into your project.
  2. Keep the pixels sharp: Project Settings › Rendering › Textures › Canvas Textures › Default Texture Filter: Nearest.
  3. Its Godot files or notes, named in the README, set up the rest.

Unity

  1. Drop the PNGs into Assets.
  2. In each texture's Inspector: Filter Mode Point (no filter), Compression None.
  3. Slice the sheets in the Sprite Editor.

GameMaker

  1. Import each sheet as a Sprite (Import Strip Image for strips).
  2. Turn off Interpolate colours between pixels in Game Options › Graphics, so the pixels stay sharp.

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